Here and There: (Re)Situating Latin America in International Communication Theory

Enghel, Florencia; Becerra, Martín

doi:10.1093/ct/qty005

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“…Their findings reveal that the increasing evolution of communication and media studies in the region since the 1980s was ‘underrepresented’ in the journal. But, drawning on previous analyses, they also demonstrated that, even up to the 1990s, in general, ‘those academics who crossed the borders from South to North to pursue a PhD and/or got their work translated to English did better’ (Enghel and Becerra, 2018: 114).…”

Section: An Interrupted Dialoguementioning

confidence: 87%

“…The analysis of the (lack of) presence of Latin American authors in international journals, as the one conducted by Enghel and Becerra (2018) as well as those that they take as historic reference, illustrates this situation in which all parties lose. Conceptual developments do not get proper visibility and, consequently, lack the opportunity of being improved by external insights.…”

Section: Final Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…It took a bit more time for me to realise that the problem had other connections, translation being one of them. Enghel and Becerra (2018) coordinated a special issue of Communication Theory , in which they address the difficulty of circulation of Latin American research in the field of communication. Their findings reveal that the increasing evolution of communication and media studies in the region since the 1980s was ‘underrepresented’ in the journal.…”

Section: An Interrupted Dialoguementioning

confidence: 99%

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English as lingua franca. Or the sterilisation of scientific work

Suzina

2020

Media, Culture & Society

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This essay discusses the impact of defining English as the lingua franca in academia, taking it as an additional barrier to achieving more equitable participation and a diversity of perspectives in scientific publications in the field of communication studies. Two aspects are particularly problematised. The first is the characterisation of a so-called research that travels, contrasting the ideal model of a strategic definition on what materials should be published on which platform with a scoring and evaluation system that prevents or limits intelligence in these choices. The second aspect is the definition of an acceptable level of eloquence for international circulation, in which the domestication of language leads to an epistemological domination. The debate is illustrated with a series of data regarding the (in)visibility of Latin American scientific production in international academic publications. Such barriers are, finally, presented as mechanisms of power that feed the so-called status of #CommunicationSoWhiteAndRich. The reflection suggests that the search for scientific rigour should not be confused with the rigidity of forms, valuing the construction of solidarity networks that contribute to the decolonisation of scientific thought.

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Section: An Interrupted Dialoguementioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Final Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: An Interrupted Dialoguementioning

confidence: 99%

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English as lingua franca. Or the sterilisation of scientific work

Suzina

2020

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“…At present, Latin America lost much of the international influence it had in the past (cf. Enghel and Becerra 2018 ; Ganter and Ortega 2019 ). Why did this happen?…”

Section: Graduate Programs In Communication Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corporatism, fractionalization and state interventionism: the development of communication studies in Brazil

Albuquerque

Tavares

2020

Publizistik

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This article summarizes the development of education and research in Communication Studies in Brazil. It is argued that different factors contributed to the development of the particular features that Brazilian Communication Studies present nowadays. They include: the late development of Brazilian universities, in comparison to the western societies, but also to other Latin American countries; the relatively early development of Communication programs, beginning from the late 1940s, following the example of the United States; state interventionism in the universities' curricula, and the influence exerted by other non-academic social actors, such as journalists' unions. As the result of the influence of these factors, Communication Studies organized according to two entirely different logics: undergraduate studies focus on specialized professional fields (such as Journalism, Advertising, Public Relations, Cinema) and adopt a practical approach with respect to them; otherwise, graduate studies employ a much more general and academic approach focusing on Communication as a whole. The article also discusses the challenges faced by Communication Studies at present, resulting both from the changes in the media landscape and a hostile political scenario, associated with the rise of Jair Bolsonaro, an ultra-rightist politician who openly disdains science (and human sciences in particular).

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“…These approaches, like those in Latin America, are under-represented in the major journals. Enghel and Becerra (2018) reproach the fact that the development of theory has taken too much from Anglo-Saxon sources and has added a scant amount of innovative and significant ideas to the general corpus of communication coming from Latin American countries. This question is somewhat surprising with regard to the German language, in which case the main authors prefer to conduct their research in English, as shown in the bibliography.…”

Section: Communication and International Studies: The Strategic Dimenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Globalización y poder: la consolidación de la comunicación internacional como disciplina. Artículo de revisión

Manfredi-Sánchez¹

2020

EPI

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Here and There: (Re)Situating Latin America in International Communication Theory

Cited by 41 publications

References 22 publications

English as lingua franca. Or the sterilisation of scientific work

English as lingua franca. Or the sterilisation of scientific work

Corporatism, fractionalization and state interventionism: the development of communication studies in Brazil

Globalización y poder: la consolidación de la comunicación internacional como disciplina. Artículo de revisión

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